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- From: mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Anti-Lock blues
- Message-ID: <mills.727719256@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:14:16 GMT
- References: <1jnatcINN5q8@hp-col.col.hp.com> <C18EBE.5xK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real Life?!?! HA!!) writes:
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- >theckel@col.hp.com (Tim Heckel) writes:
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- >>What happens is an incredibly loud grinding noise
- >>that I can also feel in the brake pedal whenever
- >>the antilock is engaged. It's so violent a combination
- >>of noise and grinding feel that my (involuntary) reaction is to
- >>jerk my foot off the brake pedal, not good!
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- >>My question to you, especially if you own an SE-R or other
- >>Nissan with antilock brakes, is is this "normal"?
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- >Not just Nissan. All ABS systems have the consequence of a "grinding." I
- >found this very unremarkable the first time I used ABS; of course, that was
- >on snow-covered gravel, and a grinding noise would have happened anyway. So
- >get used to it; you have a lot of very rapidly oscillating mechanical doo-
- >dads at work and some odd noise is to be expected.
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- I think at high speeds if it does kick in it is much smoother.
- Around 10mph the pulse information must be so slowthat things sound clunky.
- I would not call it "grinding" though.
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